The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01
narrowed In. Sow the corn in drills three to
four feet apart at the rate of three bushels of
seed per acre. The ordinary popcorn Is said
TO be excellent for this purpose.

narrowed in. Sow the corn in drills three to
four feet apart at the rate of three bushels of
seed per acre. The ordinary popcorn Is said
to be excellent for this purpose.
TURN1Ps.
Land intended to be sown in turnips, espec.
lally If ruta bagas are to be grown, should re.
ceive attention by repeated deep plowings
until the time for seeding arrives. We are
not strong In our advocacy of turnips as q
stock crop In the cotton belt Our fall climate
is generally too dry for turnips and unless
every other condition Of success Is faithfully
complied with the failures will be oftener
than the hits yet this vegetable is so desira-
moderate areu should he sown. If they fail,
1t Is easy to devote the land to some fall crop,
as rye, barley or wheat.
HOGS.
We have long believed that the predispos-
ing causes of hog cholera ore insufficient or
unnatural food and want OF plenty of pure
water. The disease Is we'll known to be in
fectious but 1t Is known that even infectious
diseases more readily attack where there are
predisposng causes The hog, In state Of
grass and nuts, and ranging the woods and
SwampS unrestralned. The neurer we can
keep to nature in the management Of stock,
snppenenting natural supplies by the arts
or culture, and protecting against undue ex-
posure to inclement weather, the more
healthy and vigorous the animals will be.
Every farmer should provide an abundance
Of green and succulent food throughout the
spring and summer, to be followed in the fall
and winter by nuts, tubers, grain and OIL
cake. Green roasting ears, stalk and all, sor-
CHAM, collards, clover fallen fruit and many
OF the natural grasses or the field afford a
succession and variety that leave little to be
desired during the growing months and
sweet potatoes, chufas,' peanuts. fleld-peas,
artichokes. ETC., answer the demands OF the
season further on, and prepare the porkers
for the smoke-house. What q list OF food re-
sources for man and beast we have in the
South We ought not TO import q pound OF
bacon or lard, beef or butter. If failure or
famine occurs In one county the adjoining or
not distant county should be our Egypt. In
stead Of the fardstant West. If failure oc-
ours this year, try again. Not many give up
cotton planting because Of even repeated.
successive failures. The writer spent seven
teen of the hest years of his life on his farm,
and during that time, In the aggregate. his
sales OF surplus pork and bacon were greater
than the amounts bought The South raised
her bacon during the war. and She can and
ought to do II now. Not every farmer. per-
haps Is, favOrably situated for raising hogs
but there are others whose surplus should
supply such as fall. This Is fully as good q
section for hog-raising as for corn-growing.
II we persist.in the one, why not In the other.
We can largely substitute oats and other
grain we accept no substitute for bacon and
lard-the greater reason why we should pro-
duce our own bacon which has been done
very successfully by many progressive South
ern farmers.-SoutteT7l Culiiuator.